We are continuing to work on updates to our Privacy Policy and GDPR Compliance. Currently, I am missing certain information. That has been requested and will be added as soon as it is available. I am not able at this time to give an exact date for completion but I agree this is an urgent priority and will update the information ASAP.

13.169 On 26th February 2013 the commissioner sent a report to the secretary general
addressing the letter of 20th December 2012.

13.170 Mr. Purcell told the commission the report was not furnished to the minister:
...but, yes, it should have gone to the minister as I said not necessarily when it came in straight away but following appropriate attention or consideration in the Garda division and then if it came back up the line it would have then in the normal course of events it would have either gone or there would have been a discussion with the minister at that stage but for whatever reason that didn’t happen.

13.171 Mr. Shatter explained that he made enquiries throughout 2013 as to whether there were any developments on the matter. He told the commission that on the 26th February 2014, while preparing to give a speech in the Dáil, Mr. Purcell gave the report of the commissioner dated 26th February 2013 to him for the first time and:...apologised for my not having seen it. I was taken aback that I hadn’t seen it ... And I read it. One of the problems with all this is ex post facto rationalisation and I don’t want to engage in that, but if I could put it this way: There was content in that letter which if I had seen before would have given rise, I think, to my asking further questions. That was my perception of it when I saw it. I couldn’t understand why I hadn’t been given it earlier.

The Minister is given this key letter a full year after the Commissioner sent it to the Secretary General!